Best “New” African Poets 2016 Anthology

Best New African Poets 2016 Anthology has 251 pieces from
131 poets and artists in 7 languages (English, Portuguese, French,
Afrikaans, Shona, Yoruba and Kiswahili) from 24 African countries and
Diasporas, with South African and Angolan poets dominating the list. We
also have a healthy number of poets from Uganda, Zimbabwe, Kenya,
Moçambique, Ghana, and Nigeria, as usual. The nationalist sense is the
one that most predominates with its pink, blue and gray tints that are
expressed in parallel with existentialist perspectives that in turn go
hand in hand with love, desire, hankering, joy, sensuality that
transports us to epic, lyrical, utopian contexts without being lost in
fantasy, they are artistic lines sometimes with traditional and
sometimes more innovative touches. However, in contrast and to a lesser
extent, almost as if there were resistant and with restraint we also
find desolation, pain, negation that can be so sweet or so bitter that
it allows the imagination to stop in a lament or end in resignation.